The Industrial Design of Clement Meadmore: The Harris/Atkins Collection. Image courtesy of TarraWarra Museum of Art

On Clement Meadmore’s Mid-Century Design Past Event

Date

Sun 26 May 2:00pm - 4:00pm

Tickets

Booking Required

Venue

TarraWarra Museum of Art
313 Healesville-Yarra Glen Rd, Healesville VIC 3777, Australia

Access

Accessible bathroom, All gender bathroom, Low sensory / relaxed, Wheelchair accessible

Join independent researcher and curator Jeromie Maver and artist/collector Peter Atkins in the Yarra Valley as they discuss the industrial design of Clement Meadmore.

Clement Meadmore is regarded as one of Australia’s most important artists of the twentieth century and is also widely acknowledged as a significant and pioneering figure within the history of Australian modernist design. Maver and Atkins will discuss Meadmore’s singular design language in depth, highlighting his remarkable ability to manipulate the most basic materials such as steel rod, cotton cord, sheet metal, canvas and thin plywood into functional, innovative and durable objects.

In conjunction with TarraWarra’s current exhibition The Industrial Design of Clement Meadmore: The Harris/Atkins Collection, this is an outstanding opportunity to hear intimate and expert insights into the Harris/Atkins Collection which, carefully built through tremendous dedication and meticulous research over the past 25 years, has played an instrumental part in affirming the importance of Meadmore’s design practice in the history of mid-century modernism.

The talk will conclude with a short Q&A with the audience, followed by refreshments courtesy of our sponsors. Exhibition entry is included in the ticket price, $20 ($15 for members).

Participants

Jeromie Maver

Jeromie Maver is a researcher, collector and curator of Australian mid-century design. He has spent a decade building an archive of print materials, ephemera and interviews relating to this significant period of Australia’s design and manufacturing history. Maver has given public talks and advised on Australian design histories for public institutions including the Powerhouse Museum, NGV, Museum of Sydney, and the Museum of Applied Arts, Budapest. In 2016, Jeromie was a recipient of the State Library of Victoria Creative Fellowship, where he (along with his partner Dean Keep) conducted research on the Australian artist and designer Clement Meadmore, which culminated in the first ever major survey of Meadmore’s design practice in 2018–19 at the Ian Potter Museum of Art, University of Melbourne.

 

Peter Atkins
Peter Atkins is a contemporary artist who, along with his partner, sculptor Dana Harris began collecting the work of Clement Meadmore in 1999 after moving to Melbourne from Sydney. Together they have built up an impressive collection, including furniture, lighting, sculpture and ephemera. Atkins contributed the essays ‘Clement Meadmore – Influences and Parallels’ and ‘Michael Hirst – The Variations’ to the National Gallery of Victoria’s Mid-Century Modern: Australian Furniture Design exhibition catalogue. The latter helping to instigate Michael Hirst’s inclusion into the Design Institute of Australia’s Hall of Fame in 2017.

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